Analysis on the Characteristics of URL Spam
Zhongtao Wang, Peng Xin, Wang Yu-ling, Yaohua Luo, Huang Li, Biao Cai · 2012
E-mail is used by hundreds of millions of users every day because it constitutes a reliable, fast, and free media of communication. Nevertheless, huge amounts of spam are being generated and waste significant internet resources, as well as users' time. Spammer send advertised URL addresses at a massive scale. However, the characteristics of URL addresses through spam have not been studied extensively. In this paper, the characteristics analysis of URL addresses disseminated through spam based on statistical analysis approach is investigated. These observations can be valuable for the configuration of spam filters and in order to obtain the higher classification precision of E-mail filter.